James Talarico
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And I can't tell you how many people come up to me at the end of these events and they whisper, I'm not a Democrat.
Like they're in the witness protection program.
And we have recruited, I think now it's over 30,000 volunteers who are doing the organizing work in every community across the state.
We've also shattered grassroots fundraising records all without taking a dime from corporate PACs.
So this is a, this is a,
A people-powered movement.
It's not a movement against any one politician or any one political party.
It's a movement against this broken system.
And we are trying and I think succeeding in building a campaign of, by, and for the people.
And it's why so many people in Washington are nervous about what we're building here.
We shocked people on election night in this primary.
I think we're going to shock people again in November.
Yeah, as a millennial, I had seen how military disasters like the Iraq War robbed this nation of young lives, of billions of dollars, and of our moral standing across the globe.
And I worry that our current leaders are making those same mistakes in Iran.
I was in Sand Branch, Texas, a few weeks ago.
It's a community south of Dallas that doesn't have any running water.
It doesn't have basic sewer infrastructure.
So every dollar that we are spending bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar that we are not spending in our communities back home.
And we're always told there's not enough money for schools, there's not enough money for healthcare, there's not enough money for housing or veterans, but there always seems to be enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.
And there are right now our government is spending a billion dollars a day, a billion dollars a day bombing people in Iran, including innocent schoolchildren.